Donald Trump Jr. said he is pleased to "move forward cooperatively, as friends"

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Chef José Andrés (inset) and Donald Trump's company have settled a nearly two-year-old legal dispute stemming from the chef’s decision to pull out of opening a restaurant in the president's D.C. hotel following then-candidate Trump's controversial remarks on immigration.

President Donald Trump's company and celebrity chef José Andrés have settled a legal dispute that started nearly two years ago when Andrés backed out of a plan to open a restaurant at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Andrés' ThinkFoodGroup and The Trump Organization issued a statement Friday saying the lawsuit has been settled. The deal's terms are confidential.

The lawsuit dates to 2015, when the D.C. chef backed out of a plan to open a restaurant in the hotel, citing then-candidate Trump's statements "disparaging immigrants."

On Friday, Andrés, himself a Spanish immigrant, said in a statement that he was "pleased that we were able to resolve our differences and move forward cooperatively, as friends."